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{"title":"Perceptions of scientific assessment effectiveness","authors":"G.O. Schreiner","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The science-policy interface process known as ‘scientific assessment’ convenes large numbers of experts, policymakers, and stakeholders to deliberate and synthesise cross-disciplinary knowledge. Considering the increasingly frequent and widespread use of scientific assessments over the past 30 years, globally and in South Africa, it is surprising that few effectiveness evaluations have been undertaken. A case-study mixed methods approach was used to evaluate the perceived effectiveness of six scientific assessment cases – two global, two regional and two national. To measure perceptions, a Generic/Procedural framework was developed, consisting of thirteen indicators based on the science-policy ‘dimensions’ of <em>Credibility</em>, <em>Relevance</em> and <em>Legitimacy</em> (CRELE). The cases were perceived to have performed better than average with respect to <em>Output quality</em>, <em>Procedural fairness</em>, <em>Use in decision-making</em>, <em>Trustworthiness</em> and <em>Iterativity</em>, and below average for <em>Coproduction</em>, <em>Capacity building</em>, <em>Media communications</em>, <em>Transdisciplinarity</em> and <em>Financial resources</em>. Perceptions of effectiveness varied based on participant role, age, and country income levels, revealing both pluralistic viewpoints and the subjective nature of participant-led evaluations. While <em>Relevance</em> is often considered the keystone dimension of CRELE, the cases performed better for indicators foundational to <em>Credibility</em> and <em>Legitimacy</em>, rather than those foundational to <em>Relevance</em>. Future successful scientific assessment practice will require more conscious consideration of <em>Relevance</em>, coupled with innovative epistemic practices in the spirit of the Pragmatic-Enlightened Model (PEM) of science-policy interaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101073"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring women's empowerment and adaptive capacity in Chepang communities of Chitwan, Nepal","authors":"Akriti Khadka,&nbsp;Michael Schuett","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Women in poorer countries are disproportionately impacted by climate change due to existing gender inequality. Empowering women is critical for building adaptive capacity to climate change and improving the resilience of families and communities. However, insufficient studies exist on the link between women, climate change, and their adaptability, leading to policies that overlook the significance of empowering women. This study examines the link between women's empowerment and adaptive capacity to climate change in a Chepang community in Nepal. Surveys of 190 households in the Chitwan district were conducted, measuring women's empowerment across six attributes and adaptive capacity across five attributes. Statistical analyses including PCA and FAMD were used to create indices for these factors. The study used OLS regression to assess the effect of women's empowerment on adaptive capacity. Results show that women's empowerment significantly impacts household adaptive capacity. This highlights the need for prioritizing women's empowerment, to enhance climate resilience in vulnerable communities. The findings have implications for policymakers and practitioners, advocating for gender-inclusive strategies to bolster community-level climate resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101070"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The interrelationships between renewable energy infrastructure and tourism: A thematic literature review","authors":"Edita Tverijonaite ,&nbsp;Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir ,&nbsp;Rannveig Ólafsdóttir ,&nbsp;C. Michael Hall","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing demand for renewable energy and rapid tourism growth point to the need for a better overview of the factors affecting the compatibility of renewable energy infrastructure (REI) with tourism. This study aims to systematically review existing research on the interrelationships between REI and tourism, to identify their type and character and the factors affecting them, and to critically discuss planning and policy implications. Analysis of 61 original articles published in international peer-reviewed journals revealed opportunities for synergic relationships, but also showed REI can negatively impact tourist experience, leading to reduced tourism demand and economic loss. Three groups of factors shaping the interrelationships between REI and tourism were identified: (1) factors related to REI, (2) locational factors, and (3) factors related to tourism stakeholders. These factors should be considered while planning REI developments to ensure sustainable coexistence with tourism, but their role highly depends on the context surrounding each REI project. The findings highlight the importance of tourism stakeholder inclusion through participatory approaches in the early stages of renewable energy planning to ensure the identification and potential preservation of resources crucial for tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101080"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soybean biorefinery and technological forecasts based on a bibliometric analysis and network mapping","authors":"Meury Joicy Biazatti ,&nbsp;Ana Clara Alves Justi ,&nbsp;Roney Fraga Souza ,&nbsp;Julio Cesar de Carvalho Miranda","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global warming and increasing pollution have become critical global issues, and, coupled depletion of traditional energy sources, have accelerated the adoption of more sustainable production systems, such as biorefineries. Biorefineries possess the capacity to integrate technologies and processes within a single facility, thereby generating biofuels, high-value-added chemical products, and energy. The current study aims to evaluate various scenarios of soybean biorefineries by employing a bibliometric analysis and network mapping to facilitate and implement technological forecasting. To achieve this objective, eight methodological steps were undertaken. The majority of studies reviewed were primarily concerned with the utilization of soybean straw and hulls, motivated by the need to address environmental challenges related to the disposal of substantial volumes of these residues. Research on the application of soy whey also emerged as significant, mainly due to its connection with soy protein isolates. The seven most promising technological avenues identified were nanocomposites, peroxidases, ethanol, green composites, biochar, films, and biodiesel. Consequently, the findings provide a bibliographic foundation for future research on the integration of soybean-derived residues, processes, and products, which could foster innovation within the biorefinery framework and lead to crucial advancements in the processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101074"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unleashing the impact of environmental information disclosure on corporate green innovation: The role of audit quality and media attention","authors":"Xiaoyang Zhao ,&nbsp;Rongcheng Zhu ,&nbsp;Qiyuan Li ,&nbsp;Jin Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101078","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101078","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Green innovation is critical for enterprises to achieve sustainable development, although academics and entrepreneurs often associate it with financial performance. However, more research is needed on the boundary and mechanism of the effect of environmental information disclosure on corporate green innovation. Based on the data of A-share listed companies from the years 2008–2022 in China, this study discusses the impact of environmental information disclosure on green innovation. It analyzes the moderating effects of external audit quality and media attention. The results show that environmental information disclosure promotes green innovation. Further, audit quality and media attention have a positive moderating effect. In addition, this effect is more evident in non-state and heavily polluting industries. Finally, alleviating financial constraints is a critical mechanism for how environmental information disclosure affects green innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101078"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"REDD+: A fine example of worst practice","authors":"Maria Marcello ,&nbsp;Michael Thompson ,&nbsp;Ikechukwu Umejesi","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101071","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Throughout the “Age of Aid” (1944–1989)⁴ development has been seen as essentially economic in nature. Increasingly, however, it has become apparent that it is economic only in its consequences. It is something else - entitlements, democratization … social capital - that makes development possible. A different paradigm is therefore needed, and we begin by sketching that by way of the various “experiments” - nationalization, privatization and communitization - with Nepal's forests over the past half-century. Nationalization and privatization turned out to be abysmal failures; communitization a great, and continuing, success. We relate all this to the differing patterns of interaction between four fundamental forms of social solidarity - individualism (eg markets), hierarchy (eg governments and aid donors), egalitarianism (eg activist groups) and fatalism (eg carriers of the “double burden”: poverty and social exclusion) - and go on to show that only when each is (a) able to make its “voice” heard and (b) is following its <em>dharma</em>^<em>5</em> (acting according to its distinctive morality rather than undermining it) do we get development. REDD+⁶, we then show, using examples of its implementation in Africa, is unremittingly hierarchical and does not satisfy these two conditions. We conclude with some suggestions for remedying these policy defects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101071"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate change, livelihood resilience, and gender: An intersectional analysis of Vietnam's forest-dependent communities","authors":"Ho Thi Phuong ,&nbsp;Nguyen Quang Tan ,&nbsp;Phan Thi Quynh Nga ,&nbsp;Le Quang Vuong ,&nbsp;Dao Thi Minh Chau ,&nbsp;Nyein Chan ,&nbsp;Kyaw Win ,&nbsp;Khin Nilar Swe","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101072","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrating gender-disaggregated data and adopting a gender-focused perspective are crucial for a comprehensive understanding of climate change issues. This study provides empirical evidence from two ethnic minorities in Vietnam, highlighting how perceptions of livelihood resilience vary by gender, geographical context, and ethnicity, with a particular emphasis on their intersections. Over 13 months, data were gathered through 3 focus group discussions, in-depth interviews with 9 key informants, field observations, and surveys of 136 households. The findings revealed a low average Household Livelihood Resilience (HLR) score of 0.434, indicating limited resilience among forest-dependent households facing external shocks. Notably, a significant gender gap was evident, with men demonstrating higher resilience levels than women, a disparity attributed to entrenched social norms and cultural practices. Women, often confined to domestic roles, faced barriers to community involvement and access to financial resources, which weakened their ability to cope with and recover from adverse events. To address these issues, the study advocates for climate actions that prioritize gender equality and aim to enhance women's resilience. This includes amplifying their voices through tailored training programs and initiatives such as women-managed microfinance groups. The study also emphasizes the policy implications for advancing gender equality, sustainable forest management, and livelihood resilience. However, this work has limitations, including a small sample size and reliance on self-reported data, which may introduce biases. Future research should involve a larger, more diverse sample of forest-dependent communities and examine various dimensions of vulnerability to provide a more nuanced understanding of resilience factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101072"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Circles of port sustainability: A novel method combining global comparability and local relatability in performance assessment","authors":"Susan Taljaard ,&nbsp;Jill H. Slinger ,&nbsp;Steven P. Weerts ,&nbsp;Heleen S.I. Vreugdenhil ,&nbsp;Cebile Nzuza","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ports are increasingly ‘greening’ operations to protect their ‘license to operate’ by integrating social-environmental considerations into their management and reporting on their sustainability performance. In this research, we develop a novel method for port sustainability performance (PSP) assessment that combines science-based knowledge with place-based contextualisation. Specifically, we address a recognised challenge of combining global (‘top-down’) techno-scientifically oriented indicators with place-based locally relatable (‘bottom-up’) contexts in sustainability performance, in addition to addressing limitations encountered in empirical verification. First, a critical evaluation of the international literature on port sustainability assessments is undertaken to distil commonalities in global performance indicators, and to identify typical frames used in the design of sustainability performance indices. We apply this learning, together with place-based experiential knowledge, to develop a science-based framework for a Port Sustainability Performance (PSP) Index that is explicitly aligned with the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). We then apply a co-design process to demonstrate local customisation of the index to derive place-based quantifiable measures and targets. Further, for easy-to-use empirical verification, a simple spreadsheet is applied to develop a flexible weighted scoring matrix. The matrix uses place-based rating systems for selected measures and associated targets, and aggregates allocated scores into informative outputs. Finally, the concept of <em>Circles of Sustainability</em> is adapted for ports to visually display sustainability performance, in alignment with related SDGs. This research contributes to bridging the science-practice divide in reporting on port sustainability performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101068"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dream housing: Exploring effective factors on housing livability in the neighborhood from the perspective of residents","authors":"Somayeh Alipour,&nbsp;Abolfazl Meshkini","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101067","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The purpose of this study is to develop a new concept of livability as \"livable housing\" in order to identify the factors that determine the subjective satisfaction of residents with the internal and surrounding environment of the housing and to estimate its level among urban neighborhoods with subjective and objective data. In order to fill the knowledge gap in livability studies, especially housing livability, the present study has looked at the link between livability and housing indicators and has evaluated this link among the residents of urban neighborhoods with different socio-economic contexts. This study has been evaluated the indicators of livable housing in an empirical analysis among the neighborhoods of Karaj metropolitan area (as a leading city) with the cluster sampling method and choosing 8 neighborhoods (as the scope of the research) as well as 402 cases (as a sample statistics derived from Cochran's formula).In this evaluation, the questionnaire with (72 sub-indicators in 15 groups) is the main criterion for data collection, and the analyzes are using statistical and spatial combined methods. The statistical analysis of the questionnaire includes preparing the data for weighting and determining the important and influential factors with the exploratory factor analysis method in the SPSS environment. The stratification of neighborhoods is done with the multi-criteria decision-making model (TODIM) by combining the raw data and the weight of indicators extracted from the EFA method. Also, the accuracy of the results has been measured with the RMS method and the use of spatial methods in (GIS).The results showed environmental, social, economic and physical macro-factors respectively have the greatest effects on the livability of housing. The indicators of facilities and infrastructures, open and public space, cleanliness and pollution were the indicators of increasing livability and satisfaction, and the indicators of place connection and belonging, access and transportation, personal and social security were the indicators of decreasing livability. In general, the neighborhoods are in different conditions of housing livability and without continuity and principles of regularity. This difference in the different effects of indicators in neighborhoods is due to the inherent differences of neighborhoods and people's mental filters. The (89%) overlap obtained from the validation of the results indicates the existence of a very insignificant difference and acceptable agreement of the results of the two methods of spatial-spatial analysis. Considering the importance of the relationship between man and the urban environment and the quality of human life, it is recommended to pay special attention to community-orientedness and local assets and a bottom-up approach in livability surveys at any scale. Also, this study suggests important policy implications for achieving urban sustainability by improving housing livability.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/d","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101067"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pervasive impacts of railway edge effects on edaphic parameters and vegetation distribution patterns","authors":"Shiekh Marifatul Haq ,&nbsp;Eduardo Soares Calixto ,&nbsp;Liang Song ,&nbsp;Irfan Rashid ,&nbsp;Anzar Ahmad Khuroo","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101064","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing the ecological impacts of transport corridors while planning any transport network is paramount for a better of understanding ecological processes, biodiversity distribution, and ecosystem resilience. Here, we evaluated the impacts of railway edges on edaphic parameters, plant diversity, and composition in the northwestern Himalaya as a function of perpendicular distance from the railway track. In 2014 and 2017, we sampled vegetation plots across 31 sites distributed along 119 km of the Kashmir railway to test the effect of railway tracks on edaphic and vegetative parameters in short-term periods. T-shaped plots were laid comprising four sub-plots, one parallel to the track and the other three perpendiculars to it. We adopted the Mountain Invasion Research Network road survey methodology for data collection. We found (i) an increasing trend in all soil parameters (electrical conductivity, salinity, organic carbon, available nitrogen, and available phosphorus), except pH, as the distance from the railway track increased; (ii) significant railway edge effects on the importance value index of plant growth forms, life span, nativity and taxonomic group across space (distance of plots from the track) and time (2014–2017); and (iii) a significant spatiotemporal railway edge effects on plant species composition. Our results are pioneering in showing that railway tracks crossing through different ecosystems alter the edaphic conditions, resulting in direct and indirect edge effects on key abiotic and biotic factors, which in turn impact the vegetation of the surrounding natural habitats on both sides of the railway track. Our study contributes toward a better understanding of the role of anthropogenic edges like railways on edaphic parameters and vegetation distribution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101064"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142315517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}